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unusual facts about adults



Andesiana similis

Adults fly from late October to mid December in Nothofagus dombeyi forests with an understory of Chusquea culeou.

Barrington Stoke

Some authors better known for writing for adults also write for Barrington Stoke, including Eric Brown, Allan Guthrie, James Lovegrove and Gwyneth Jones writing as Ann Halam.

Bruce Brooks

Midnight Hour Encores was chosen best book of 1986 by SLJ, a best book for young adults by the ALA, Horn Book Fanfare Honor List book in 1987, teacher's choice by the National Council of Teachers of English that same year, a young adult choice by the International Reading Association in 1988, and an ALA Booklist "best of the 1980s" book for young adults.

Carnegie Medal

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (inaug. 2012), two American awards for year's best books for adults

Catherine Steiner-Adair

She has a private psychotherapy practice in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts where she works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

Celaena haworthii

Adults are active during the night and day and feed on flower nectar of Calluna vulgaris, Origanum vulgare and Molinia species.

Consenting Adult Action Network

Clauses in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 that ban people from working in jobs involving children or "vulnerable adults" if they possess "sexually explicit images depicting violence against human beings".

Cord blood

In 2005, University of Toronto researcher Peter Zandstra developed a method to increase the yield of cord blood stem cells to enable their use in treating adults as well as children.

Crotalus enyo

Adults also prey on large centipedes of the genus Scolopendra.

Cynegetis impunctata

Adults and larvae are vegetarian and polyphagous, on grasses such as couch-grass (Elymus repens), false oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius) and reed canary-grass (Phalaris arundinacea).

Dairy Council of California

Dairy Council of California provides free nutrition education programs to California children and adults through teachers and health professionals.

Dignitas International

Since October 2004, Dignitas has been working particularly in Zomba District, Malawi in partnership with the Malawi Ministry of Health, providing antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to thousands of children and adults in the country.

Disability in children's literature

Beginning in the 1970s, the United States Congress passed several Acts to legally protect the right of children and adults with disabilities to be included in schools and the workforce, first with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and then the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975.

Doctor Sivana

Laughed out of society by people who called his inventions impractical and his science a fake, Sivana took his family to the planet Venus in a spaceship he had invented, where he stayed until his children were grown, and Earth not as backward as when he left it; since his children were adults by 1940, his departure from Earth would implicitly have been the late 1910s or early 1920s.

Don't Knock the Rock

With the help of disc jockey Alan Freed and film headliners Bill Haley & His Comets, they set out to prove that the music isn't as bad as adults think.

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Adults as well as larvae are found in very soft decaying wood of broad-leaved trees, especially ash (Fraxinus excelsior), beech (Fagus sylvatica) and apple (Malus spp).

Etiquette in Japan

The titles for people are -chan (most often for female close friends, young girls or infants of either gender), -kun (most often for male close friends, or young boys), -san (for adults in general) and -sama (for customers, and also used for feudal lords, gods or buddhas).

Facilitated communication

Beukelman, D., and Mirenda, P. Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Management of Severe Communication Disorders in Children and Adults. Paul H. Brookes, (1998) ISBN 1-55766-333-5

Felicia Stoler

Dr. Felicia Stoler is an American registered dietitian and exercise physiologist who has hosted Honey, We're Killing the Kids, a television series originally developed by the BBC that shows parents the consequences of poor parenting, using computer-generated images of what their children may look like as adults if they continue with their present life-style, dietary and exercise habits.

Gorgyra subfacatus

Adults are attracted to flowers, such as those of Lantana species.

Hammer-headed bat

Adults are often infected with mites and the hepatoparasite, Hepatocystis carpenteri.

Handicapism

And characters like Captain Hook, promote the fears of children against disability among adults.

Hell-Bourg

They were soon being recommended for children, weak and anaemic adults, as well as people suffering from gastritis.

Hoatzin

When predators such as the Great Black Hawk attack a Hoatzin nesting colony, the adults fly noisily about, trying to divert the predator's attention, while the chicks move away from the nest and hide among the thickets.

Hornby's Storm Petrel

There have also been reports of mummified fledglings and adults found in crevices in the Atacama Desert 50 km from the sea, and even reports of one fledgling being seen 150 km from the sea, and one unproven report of a bird flying into a nest in the town of Caraz in Peru, 100 km from the sea.

Inez Tenenbaum

In 2005, following parental complaints, Tenenbaum decided to remove Chris Crutcher's book, Whale Talk, which had been chosen by the American Library Association as a "Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults", from the South Carolina Education Department's English reading list for sophomores.

Information processing technology and aging

The advent of technology has shown promising results in various fields such as the delivery of care and in-vehicle driving technology Intelligent vehicle technologies by focusing on the needs of older adults and placing them at the center of this transformation.

Katherine Swynford

Their four children had been given the surname "Beaufort" and with the approval of King Richard and the Pope were legitimated as adults by their parents' marriage in 1396.

Knemidokoptes pilae

The viviparous females drill tunnels in the epidermis where they give birth to six-legged larvae, which mutate through two eight-legged nymphal stages from the second of which the adults molt.

Königsstuhl National Park Centre

On an outdoor area of 28,000 square metres there are other attractions for children and adults, such as a climbing forest, a ground-nesting bird's nest with giant eggs and an exhibition about the painting Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (Kreidefelsen auf Rügen) by the artist Caspar David Friedrich.

Lake Malawi

It is believed that these painted dogs seasonally move across the border from Malawi into Zambia to hunt in The South Luangwa Valley but seemingly they have plenty of success within Malawi as the pack consists of 7 adults and 10 pups.

Leptophobia eleone

Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Lantana species.

Male Call

Beginning in 1995, Dargaud published a comics series entitled Pin-Up, aimed mainly at adults, written by Yann Le Pennetier and drawn by Philippe Berthet.

Mark Talbott

The Talbott Squash Academy, a well-respected summer camp for juniors and adults, was established in 1991, and is currently held at St George's School in Newport, Rhode Island and at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

Marvin Terban

Terban's books have made it as far as Shanghai University in China, where they are used to teach English to adults.

Mesotype verberata

Adults feed on the nectar of a number of flowers, including those of Solidago virgaurea, Aconitum napellus and Campanula rotundifolia.

Mixed-income housing

They draw on the seminal work of sociologist William Julius Wilson and describe the ways that adults serve as role models for children and youth through demonstrating work skills and the value of education.

Motivations for joining the Special Olympics

This directly relates to the high levels of Cardiovascular disease, obesity, and low muscle capacity in adults with intellectual disabilities.

Mr. Snuffleupagus

Some adults gradually began to believe Big Bird, the first being folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie who sang Big Bird a song about her belief in Mr. Snuffleupagus.

Nola Randall-Mohk

Randall-Mohk was presented with the NSW Lifetime Achievement in Community Service Award by John Hatzistergos, Attorney General and Minister for Citizenship and Peter Primrose, Minister for Volunteering, acknowledging Nola's commitment to meeting the educational needs of disadvantaged adults and their access to suitable vocational opportunities.

Northwestern garter snake

The northwestern garter snake is small, with adults averaging around 36–53 cm (14–21 inches) in total length.

Onehouse

There is also a community centre shared by neighbouring villages, Shelland and Harleston (further northwest), where children and adults alike enjoy a wide number of activities including a weekly youth club.

Polychrysia morigera

Covell and Medley (1986) reported adults trapped in the labellum of Cypripedium kentuckiense.

Reardan, Washington

Famous Native American writer Sherman Alexie attended Reardan High School, which is featured in a few of his stories and in his 2007 novel for young adults, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Satyrium californica

Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Eriogonum and Asclepias species.

Siphlonurus lacustris

Siphlonurus lacustris is a species of 'mayflies' belonging to the Family Siphlonuridae Order Ephemeroptera (from the Greek ephemeros = "short-lived", pteron = "wing", referred to the short life of adults).

Social interactionist theory

Social-interactionists, such as Jerome Bruner, Alison Gopnik, Andrew Meltzoff, Anat Ninio, Roy Pea, Catherine Snow, and Ernest Moerk theorize that interaction with adults plays an important part in children's language acquisition .

The Witch from Melchet Street

It's based on a book by Israeli author Gadi Taub and is geared towards both children and adults as it tells the story of the magical summer that Assaf fell in love for the first time with a neighborhood girl and became close friends with the witch who lived on his street.

University college entrance program

A University College Entrance Program (UCEP) is an education program in Canada, designed for adults who were unable to successfully complete Grade 12 level courses, but wish to go into a post secondary education.

Video game controversies

Craig A. Anderson and B.J. Bushman in 2001 suggested that violent video games may increase mild forms of aggressive behavior in children and young adults.


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